The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
